Description: Thinking About Nuclear Weapons : Principles, Problems, Prospects, Hardcover by Quinlan, Michael, ISBN 0199563942, ISBN-13 9780199563944, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Th reflects the authors experience across more than forty years in assessing and forming policy about nuclear weapons, mostly at senior levels close to the centre both of British governmental decision-making and of NATOs development of plans and deployments, with much interaction also
with comparable levels of United States activity in the Pentagon and the State department. Part I of th seeks to distill, from this exceptional background of practical experience, basic conceptual ways of understanding the revolution brought about by nuclear weapons. It also surveys NATOs
progressive development of thinking about nuclear deterrence, and then discusses the deep moral dilemmas posed - for all possible standpoints - by the existence of such weapons. Part II considers the risks and costs of nuclear-weapon possession, including proliferation dangers, and looks at both
successful and unsuccessful ideas about how to manage them. Part III illustrates specific issues by reviewing the history and current policies of one long-established possessor, the United Kingdom, and two more recent ones, India and Pakistan. Part IV turns to the future, examines the goal of
eventually abolishing all nuclear armouries, and then discusses the practical agenda, short of such a goal, which governments can usefully tackle in reducing the risks of proliferation and other dangers while not surrendering prematurely the war-prevention benefits which nuclear weapons have brought
since 1945.
This book is a project of the Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War.
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Book Title: Thinking About Nuclear Weapons : Principles, Problems, Prospects
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Name: Thinking about Nuclear Weapons : Principles, Problems, Prospects
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: Military / Nuclear Warfare, International Relations / Arms Control, General
Publication Year: 2009
Item Height: 0.7 in
Item Weight: 15.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 8.5 in
Subject Area: Political Science, History
Author: Michael Quinlan
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Hardcover
